Jacob van zandt



(No Model.)

J. VAN ZANDT.

TAPEING BUNG.

No. 399,173. Patented Mar. 5, 1889..

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UNITED STATES Parent JACOB VAN ZANDT, OF SYRACUSE, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DUNCAN IV. PECK, OF SAME PLACE.

TAPPlNG-BUNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,173, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed May 3, 1888. Serial No. 272,638. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, JACOB VAN ZANDT, of Syracuse, county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tapping-Brings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the bung, barrel, and faucet in position. Fig. 2 is a detached elevation of the tapping-bung. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line a; m, Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a sectional elevation of the bung with the cap removed and faucet inserted. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the outer end of the bun with the cap removed.

My invention relates to that class of dcf vices known as tapping-brings for barrels or casks into which the faucet is inserted to i draw off the contents whenever desired.

The object of my invention is to produce such a bung, and also provided with a device for straining the liquid contents and for keeping the barrel tight when empty and after the removal of the faucet, so that the barrel will not become moldy and sour.

It consists in the several novel features of 1 operation and construction which are more specifically set forth in the claim hereto annexed.

It is constructed as follows: A is the barrel or cask, in which the heads 1 are insert-ed, the head i being provided with a hole at about the location of an ordinary faucet-hole. Into this hole I screw the tubular bung-piece 3, provided with an outer flange, 4, and an iniernal spider, 5, and the inner end is provided 1 with the shoulder l3, and beyond that a tubular extension, 7. Fitting over this extension 7 is the cap b, provided with a solid head, 9, and body provided with perforations l0, and l to the center of the head 9, I secure the shaft ll,which passes through the spider 5, and upon its outer endl secure another spider, 12, l and I3 is a coiled spring around the shaftl and between the spiders 5 and 12.

A screw cap, ll, closes the bung when the faucet is removed.

In Fig. l I show a sectional elevation of the bung with the cap removed and the faucet 1-5 inserted, the end of the faucet either screwing in or being driven in against the spider 12, forcing that inward, compressing the spring between the two spiders, and sliding the cap 8 off from the extension 7, thus opening the perforations 10 and admitting through them the liquid into the bung and faucet, the perforations in the cap 8 making that cap a strainer to remove all floating hops or coarse sediment which maybe in the barrel, Then, when the barrel is empty, I remove the fancet from the bung, and the spring draws the cap back outwardly over the bung-extension,

= thus closing all perforations tightly and the spring holding the bung closed on its inner 65 end, and to close the outer end I screwin the cap 1%, and this seals that bung against the admission of air into the cask, and if the fillingbung-hole is tightly closed by the bung 15 the barrel cannot mold nor become sour or rancid, liiecause the gases cannot escape.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination,witha barrel, of a tubular bung inserted into its head, consisting of a threaded tubular body, 3, having a flange, 4,

v a spider, 5, integral with the body and trans verse thereto, a tubular extension, 7, integral with the body, a perforated cap, 8, closed at its inner end and fitting over the extension, a shaft, 1], integral with the head and pass- I ing through the spider 5, and provided with a spider, l2, upon its outer end, and a spring, l upon the shaft and between. the spiders 5 and 12, substantially as described. 8 5

In witness whereof Ihave hereunto set my hand this 20th day of April, 1888.

JACOB VAN ZANDT.

In presence of H. P. Dawson, Cans, H. BnowN. 

